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We asked for your ideas to fix the economy. You sent back far more than we could print. Some of you were serious. Some of you were kidding (we think). As Congress sends President Obama a stimulus package nearing $1-trillion, you have plans of your own: Raise taxes! Slash taxes! Make China pay! Make athletes pay! Invest in bullet trains, nuclear reactors and missions to space! Or, marijuana could save us. See what you think. Put America first Patriotic retirement: There are about 40 million people over 50 in the work force … pay them $1 million apiece severance with...

Today's Wall Street Journal contains some puzzling news for all Americans who are impacted by high energy prices and who share the goal of moving us toward energy independence. For years, states rich with an abundance of oil and natural gas have been begging Washington, DC politicians for the right to develop their own natural resources on federal lands and off shore. Such development would mean good paying jobs here in the United States (with health benefits) and the resulting royalties and taxes would provide money for federal coffers that would potentially off-set the need for higher income taxes, reduce...

CLEMMONS - Just off Business 40, past strip malls, gas stations and fast-food outlets, sits a former evangelical church turned mosque. Since January, the circular brick building has been known as the Annoor Center. "Annoor" means light in Arabic. With its parking lot full of SUVs and many of the worshippers dressed in polo shirts, the mosque conveys a distinctly suburban image. The people inside represent the success of Muslims in the American mainstream. Of the about 60 who come to the Friday services, most are professionals or business owners. Most of them were born overseas, said Habib Bendaas,...

David Coursey, Executive Editor, AnchorDesk Monday, February 4, 2002 It's been a week since I started using a new iMac as my full-time desktop and a PowerBook G4 as my portable PC, all as part of my month-long challenge to see if I, long a loyal Windows user, could make Apple the center of my computing universe. There are still a few problems--specifically related to getting PDA data in and out of Microsoft Office. But besides that, I've made a very smooth transition. I have even started using the Apple key instead of the Control key when cutting and ...

GREENSBORO -- Landlords who own an estimated 700 rundown houses and apartments across the city were given fair warning Friday: Bring your buildings up to code or face criminal charges. Greensboro's code enforcement manager announced a massive inspections sweep Friday that begins today and is expected to last for three months. The 172 criminal charges filed against landlord Bill Agapion last week were merely the tip of the iceberg, said Walter Simmons, Greensboro's code enforcement manager. Boosted, in part, by an increase in personnel, city inspectors will work six days a week to confirm hundreds of buildings across the ...

Welcome to BaseCamp In the world of mountaineering, BaseCamp is where a climb begins.It's where the big tents get set up; where the food and fuel are stored.It's the fallback point in case of bad weather - the place everyone agrees to gather.So it is at FreeRepublic. Thanks to JR, we immigrants from TOS have been granted this space to acclimatizeand prepare for the long climb up the Mt. Everest of the world's political forums. If you run into a f reep storm on the Forum, fall back to BaseCamp ! Stock up on nourishment, advice, or asbestos undies ...

Welcome to BaseCamp In the world of mountaineering, BaseCamp is where a climb begins.It's where the big tents get set up; where the food and fuel are stored.It's the fallback point in case of bad weather - the place everyone agrees to gather.So it is at FreeRepublic. Thanks to JR, we immigrants from TOS have been granted this space to acclimatizeand prepare for the long climb up the Mt. Everest of the world's political forums. If you run into a freep storm on the Forum, fall back to BaseCamp !Stock up on nourishment, advice, or asbestos undies from your ...

Problem: Many of you know me as the amiable anti-socialist, the trusty 'Grateful Wharff Ratt.' HOWEVER, I also have an alter-ego, known as 'GWR' the 'Hitlery-spoof-graphic Ratt.' Well, to simplify, some freepers have posted my graphics on various Leftist web-sites, like Tabletalk Salon, NPR, Dim Underground, hillary.org, etc, etc, .... ANYWAY, in the last 2 months, I have prolly racked up about 100,000 graphics files served.... As anybody with a public machine would do, I scan the Log file periodically for unauthorized poking around. I have been prototyping a log file parsing app based on PHP and MySQL, but ...

Last night on the "Special Report with Brit Hume" show on the Fox News Channel, during the All-Star Panel segment Mort Kondracke (responding to Brit's criticism of the bald-faced media double standard) reported that Al Gore's son was expelled from his Private Boarding school for drugs. Kondracke also stated that Al Bore's lovely daughter (maybe the one acting as his official mouthpiece during the election) has been cited for having an open container of alcohol. STRANGELY ENOUGH, although I watch the media like a HAWK, I never saw any previous reference to EITHER of these INCIDENTS (Kondracke also cites ...

Freeper Report: Ann speaks at Duke!! (pics!!!!) Author's Note --- this is a repost of my April 9th, 2001 Freeper Report of Ann's Speech at Duke. Originally these photos were posted on Photopoint.com, and they are about to discontinue their service, so I have been forced to move these images to a new home. Ann Coulter delivered a speech about Feminism (and how it is based on 2 lies: Abortion and Sexual Harrassment), on Sunday April 8th, 2001 on the campus of Duke University. She spoke for about 40 minutes, and then fielded questions from the audience. As you might ...

When last we met, I expressed concern that yesterday's column--about Microsoft's new software licensing scheme--might be off base. And I promised to call analysts and seek a response from Redmond and report back. The good news for me (but bad news for customers): I'm right, as were the previous news stories by Joe Wilcox. So far I've had two analysts, both briefed by Microsoft, tell me yesterday's column was spot on. Another analyst said the issue was complex and he hadn't studied it--putting him in the question mark column--and I am still waiting for three callbacks. Meanwhile, when I spoke ...

Wouldn't it be great if you could get all your big customers to make their next two years' worth purchases all before October 1--and still give you more money over the coming two years? That's exactly what Microsoft is doing, and short of customer revolt or federal action, they will probably get away with it. Microsoft is giving its corporate volume buyers this choice: Get "current" by October 1 or pay full price the next time you need new software (with no upgrade discount). HERE'S THE KICKER: Microsoft is defining "current" as a computer running either Windows 2000 or ...

Freeport: Ann speaks at Duke!! (pics!!!!) Ann Coulter delivered a speech about Feminism (and how it is based on 2 lies: Abortion and Sexual Harrassment), on Sunday April 8th on the campus of Duke University. She spoke for about 40 minutes, and then fielded questions from the audience. As you might expect from our dim-witted competitors, the liberals, they asked a few questions which were meant to bamboozle the affable, astute aphrodite of the VRWC. Even in the bastion of liberal hubris, the other side only managed to have about 10 disruptors present. A few of the questions were ...